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20 Heller Ried im Traunkreis
| Issuer | Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis (Municipality of Ried im Traunkreis) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Krone (1918-1921) |
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| Obverse description | Brown on cream notgeld voucher with an ornate foliate border framing a central vignette of the local church and village rooftops set among trees. The denomination '20' appears in large numerals at lower left and right, with 'Heller' inscribed below each; the issuer legend 'Gutschein Gemeinde' and 'Ried im Traunkreis' are rendered in decorative Fraktur script at upper left and upper right respectively. A three-line guarantee text in Gothic type occupies the lower register, dated 'Ried i. Tr., 1. April 1920,' followed by a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse lettering | Mei Nam' kimmt von „Reut'n", 's guat Geld kimmt von Leut'n, Da guat Most kimmt va mir, Drum vertrinkts dös Papier und tats net schier. Gutschein der Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis Die Gemeinde Ried im Traunkreis gibt Gutscheine im Gesamtbetrage von 52.000 K aus. Dieselben werden bis 31. Oktober 1920 von der Gemeindekassa Ried im Traunkreis :: in gesetzlichem Bargeld eingelöst. :: Die Nachmachung dieses Scheines wird gesetzlich bestraft. |
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Austrian municipal notgeld of this type emerged from a simple problem: the postwar coin shortage was so severe that small-denomination metal currency had effectively vanished from everyday commerce by 1919–1920, hoarded or melted. Gemeinden across Upper Austria printed their own fractional paper to fill the gap, with Ried im Traunkreis among hundreds of small communities issuing locally authorized notes through the Notgeld system.
The Jaksc/Pick reference places this within the documented Upper Austrian series, but survival rates for village-level 20 Heller pieces vary sharply — many were redeemed and destroyed once coin circulation normalized in the early 1920s.